"John Wayne Airport on Chopping Block Due to Actor's Extreme Racism"

CAROL WAYNE INTERNATIONAL!

Why does that bitch have an airport named after him in the first place?

It's sad John Wayne's gay past is not more widely known.

Mein Fuhrer!

they really should wait about 100 years after someone's death before they even consider erecting a statue or naming something after them.

His draft dodging during WWII should be reason enough that it never should have been named for him in the first place.

Ronald Reagan was a champion racist dog whistler. Strip him of Washington Reagan Airport. Put it back to National Airport. Leave John Fucking Wayne alone.

He was hung and he rocked a man bag and espadrilles. Leave him alone.

He hated that airport while he was alive!

..."Oh Ronnie," she enthused, "I wish you could be here to see all these beautiful white people ... black and white people, I mean."

R6, were 35 year old men with 4 children being drafted in WW2?

I don't think so.

Seriously R7 Reagan called black people monkeys on Nixon tapes released last year. How has he not been canceled yet?

I admit it, I'm sick of cancel culture. The real world thing, the thing we need to focus on, is police brutality against black people. All this shit about who gets an airport and statues and everyone being at full shriek on twitter, it's a bore and a distraction. It will sap the energy from the actual problem, and that sucks. But every stupid tween now needs to get into the act with their bullshit and that will eventually be the story and prevent anything actually being done about the real world issue.

Meh. Who gives a fuck? Not me, that’s for sure.

He was a real piece of work Asshole. Hope they rename it.

R10 Wayne got a special exemption from the government because he argued making movies was so damn important. Really, he was just a coward. The grossest thing about that asshole was that when Vietnam rolled around he was outspoken in his beliefs that all draft dodgers and protesters should be hanged. Wayne was a chicken hawk whose tough guy hero screen persona is totally at odds with the coward he was in real life.

He literally called himself a white supremacist in Playboy Magazine. That’s why The Simpsons have him in hell in one of their Halloween episodes.

John Wayne Believed in White Supremacy- TRUE

Weren't all his wives Hispanic?

They should name it for Kobe Bryant. He lived in O.C. and used that airport regularly for his helicopter including the last flight.

I want him, and his airport, GONE!

Even one named after John Wayne [italic]Gacy [/italic]would be preferable.

R1 Plus, his movies were mostly shit.

I truly don't give a shit if there is a John Wayne Airport in the world. Truly do not give a shit.

They should rename it for Karl Marx just to fuck with those assholes in Orange County

R19 but Kobe is rapist

It's weird how ALL the energy goes to the symbolic issues, and pretty much none to the real issues, ever.

" Extreme Racist" Wayne, and his Latina wife.

[quote]R22 I truly don't give a shit if there is a John Wayne Airport in the world. Truly do not give a shit.

Because you’re a white male. And it’s all about you.

One of the biggest racists I knew loved fucking black guys.

Orange County Airport is what it used to be, and what it should be. Naming airports after people is annoying because you have no idea where the place is if you just know some random name.

I was in school in OC when they came up with that name and stupid statue, and I hated it. The article below is from my alma mater.

Could someone please prepare a list of perfect people so the wokesters can propose some new names?

THANK YOU!

Yes he had a Peruvian wife, a Mexican wife and a Panamanian wife and his children are mixed race.

I bet he beat the hell out of them.

R32 No. Read a book sometime.

[quote]It's weird how ALL the energy goes to the symbolic issues, and pretty much none to the real issues, ever.

The people who have the power to make symbolic change have a reason to do so, either because they want to help make a cultural change or because they think it'll help their bottom line. That's why we're seeing these cultural, symbolic changes.

Meanwhile, the people who can make institutional change, cops and politicians and the like, aren't doing anything because they don't care.

That's why you're seeing more symbolic change than real change.

I love Marion and her uncircumcised cock!

Marion the Contrarian

You'd be wise to take your own advice, R33, and perhaps start with this one. He beat all of his wives.

[quote]extreme racism

Like Hitler racism, or run-of-the-mill American racism?

Take Reagan’s name off that airport too!

What r12 and r25 have said. And if we don’t cancel Trump none of this other shit matters.

That said, I’m petty and if they’re gonna fucking start canceling Golden Girls episodes, then go ahead and cancel real racist POSes like John Wayne and Ronald Reagan (that airport should be next, but of course he’s been sainted so that’ll never happen).

They can just add "Gacy".

I’m waiting for the Wokesters to figure out they need to change Robert Moses State Park. He actually was a racist and designed things so poor black people couldn't travel to the ocean beaches of Long Island.

Marion Michael Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor, director, producer and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. He was among the top box office draws for three decades, famous for his roles in Western films.

Wayne was down with the Latinas:

Wayne was married three times and divorced twice. His three wives, one of Spanish American descent and two of Hispanic descent, were Josephine Alicia Saenz, Esperanza Baur, and Pilar Pallete.

R26 Donald Trump is a xenophobe and has married two women from foreign countries.

[quote] They can just add "Gacy".

That was worth a good chuckle.

He was a known racist in Hollywood. My father told me that he said or did something at an event to insult Cicely Tyson and that it was racist in nature. I regret that I cannot remember the story now.

I didn't care about the airport one way or another. But I never understood why the airport was named for someone who was just a celebrity as opposed to a civic leader, a humanitarian or a philanthropist.

I ended up watching one of his classics, The Searchers, recently and was taken aback by just how poor an actor he was. The line readings were in a monotone drone and there was nothing at all happening behind the eyes. There was not a hint of vitality or energy in his performance. The contrast to, for example, Gary Cooper, was enormous and made me wonder how he became so big, when there were better actor-stars all around him in those days.

[quote] Yes he had a Peruvian wife, a Mexican wife and a Panamanian wife and his children are mixed race.

His children are not mixed race. Their mothers were Hispanic but caucasian. He was a bigot...and a homosexual.

R19, but Kobe crashed.

R47 I can't stand his "acting" for the same reasons. The only thin he was tolerable in was The Cowboys, where he was mostly silent.

[quote]He was a known racist in Hollywood.

In Hollywood?! He literally called himself a white supremacist and didn't want black people in power. It was known everywhere, not just Hollywood.

[quote]His children are not mixed race. Their mothers were Hispanic but caucasian. He was a bigot...and a homosexual.

Not gay. Not even bi.

R52 lol he fucked the gay from The searchers. And that fbi guy

He didn't fuck any guy. The guy was all about pussy. A total slob and a racist.

"The Searchers" is visually stunning, but the dialogue is just awful--anachronistically racists and Wayne phones-in his performance despite the presence of taskmaster John Ford.

I suspect he may have exempted Hispanics from his racism. But he's still a racists and a pretty limited actor.

R54 Just like Delon

Phoneywood repug icon. Bad actor who fought the Nazi's at Warner Bros like his pal Ronnie.

R37 That book is known to be full of inaccuracies and outright lies. The book by Scott Eyman is the definitive book on Wayne right now. His second marriage was story and I think both he and his wife were violent but y'know, I wasn't there.

*stormy

Naming airports after people is confusing as hell. It should be named after the city - or some geographical reference.

Usually they are names after some generals or politicians of note. John Wayne? It's the only one named after an ACTOR.

It's ridiculous.

"The problem was that the current Latin American wife wasn’t fulfilling her domestic duties — which is why they were divorcing, and why Chata, infuriated and bitter, was alleging horrible things about the Duke in court: that he’d blackened her eye, pulled her from bed and beat her, given her multiple bruises, called her “obscene names,” and was “manhandling her in front of guests”; he “went some place where there were streep teasers [sic], call girls, prostitutes or whatever you want to call them,” she testified. “He came home the next morning very drunk and with a big black bite on his neck ... this was a human being bite.” Wayne’s lawyer countered that Chata was a drunk who “stayed out all night and returned with grass stains on her clothes,” and, during their estrangement, “entertained a male guest at their residence” while Wayne was on set."

[quote] Seriously [R7] Reagan called black people monkeys on Nixon tapes released last year. How has he not been canceled yet?

The only thing named for Reagan is his library. I almost got jumped once when I referred to DCA as "Reagan" rather than "National."

In Poland there is Reagan Park

Anybody who categorically hates black people would also call a homosexual man (regardless of race) a "fag."

"but the most annoying fraus I know fetishize the past, so this will piss them off"

I finally figured it out, "fraus" are DLers themselves!

No woman I've known cared much about John Wayne, he was always a fantasy for straight men

I’m guessing they named the airport after a fug, white, right wing racist because it’s in Orange County.

I don't know if it's true but wasn't Chata supposedly a hooker?

[quote] Naming airports after people is confusing as hell. It should be named after the city - or some geographical reference.

Plainly there are no pilots here. For aviation purposes airport are referred to by a code designation. DFW for Dallas-Fort Worth. MCO for Orlando.International. SNA for John Wayne Airport. etc

DLers are the frauiest Fraus who ever fraued. And their hatred of Fraus is projection.

R68, I think people (especially travelers) know that airports have 3-letter abbreviation codes (SFO, CDG, etc.). Airports also have longer, spelled-out names as well.

Henry and Jane Fonda Airport

They had the right politics.

They should rename it Joan Crawford Airport.

Why do we even name airports after people? We should name them after places. Rocky Mountain Airport, Great Plains airport, Puget Sound Airport, Arroyo Airport, Orange Grove Airport. Just pick a local geographic name. Or something that happened in the past like “Revolutionary War Airport” — the one that America’s founders stormed. Or an old Algonquin name meaning “Place Of Overpriced Liquor.”

This all began with an attack on Kate Smith who sang "colored" songs in the 30s, as did many others,

[quote] Could someone please prepare a list of perfect people so the wokesters can propose some new names?

1. Marsha P. Johnson

[end of list]

Barbara Jordan

It's a shitty little airport anyway.

You know any white family can be accused of racism. Whether is is proven is not necessary in today's times.

Bette Davis despised John Wayne.

[quote]Bette Davis despised John Wayne.

Now this is the PERFECT name for an airport.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are now on our final approach to Bette Davis Despised John Wayne Airport..."

^ I like the bette Davis airport

In vain the plane lands gently at John Wayne.

I agree they should just stop naming shit after people. You never know what’s going to creep up.

They stopped naming schools in my town after longtime school board trustees after two of them were indicted. 🤣

[quote]I agree they should just stop naming shit after people.

I generally agree, but it they wanted to name it Bette Davis Airport I would make an exception.

What someone said up thread was on point - John Wayne was an old school Republican - racist, anti-communist, anti-socialism, etc.

He was 'the perfect Republican' to represent Orange County.

Kobe Bryant? You're joking.

The guy was, at best, a philanderer, and at worst, a rapist.

Marion had a beautiful uncircumcised cock and, was excellent on I Love Lucy!

r79 I was going to ask for a thread! All I found was this quote from Davis, no idea of it's validity:

“I certainly would have given anything to have worked with John Wayne. He’s the most attractive man who ever walked the Earth I think.”

I read an interview Bette Davis did, many years ago, and she said John Wayne was a hypocrite for not fighting in WWII when he was so pro-war. He used the excuse that he had children to get out of fighting, but Davis said many men had children and still enlisted because they thought it was their duty as American citizens. She thought Wayne was a coward. She also despised his politics. She didn't like Ronald Reagan either.

Picture it, Hollywood 1967, the Columbia Pictures lot. Filming has just begun on "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". Spencer Tracy is far too ill to do the film and is replaced at the last minute by John Wayne. The producers are convinced the Duke can turn out a convincing performance as an ultra-liberal man who has spent his life promoting racial equality. John Wayne loses the Best Actor Oscar by just a few votes to Rod Steiger. A decade later, Hepburn and Wayne would be reunited to do a western movie.

[quote] Marion had a beautiful uncircumcised cock

If his cock was so beautiful, why did he allow his sons to be mutilated????

They should have left it as the Hollywood Burbank Airport.

Wayne was like Trump--a draft dodging war monger. Fuck him.

[quote]I’m waiting for the Wokesters to figure out they need to change

You know, you don't have to be "woke" to realize it's bad to name things after known racists.

Also, if they were racist they probably would have hated gays too.

danke r89, really the worst hypocrisy from Wayne, good for Bette. r92, Trump's like a WWE character, very theatrical, loves hurling insults - but when push comes to shove, he's actually been one of the more restrained Presidents vis a vis foreign wars, drone attacks and the like.

He was a racist homophobic cunt! Good!

What a pitiful Sophia story r90

[Quote]They should have left it as the Hollywood Burbank Airport

Oh, dear.

People are now bringing up the fact that Bette Davis did black face. I shit you not.

[quote]The only thing named for Reagan is his library.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, sweetie. Where the fuck have you been these past 22 years?!

I only fly into airports named after real Presidents - like Washington.

You mean Washington who owned slaves?

R100, it was October 2019 and my Black lesbian Uber driver was like "WE DON'T CALL IT THAT!!!!" and she wasn't playing. Then we moved on to more pleasant topics. I tipped her big because she knew the location of my hotel and I didn't want her to return to kill me in my sleep.

Stop naming things after celebrity entertainers.

Reminds me of “Gilda’s Place” for cancer patients. The patients voted to change it because they didn’t know who Gilda Radner was. Happens to every generation, eventually, when you name things after celebrities.

They did not name John Wayne Airport after the person who was John Wayne. They don't know a thing about John Wayne. Or care. He built an image associated with hyper right wing masculinity and they used his name to associate themselves with that image, too.

Yes, it's all those John Wayne loving fraus you hear about being against this. Lol. OP you're too much.

Jesus, you guys are slipping. All of this talk about Bette Davis airport and nobody has quoted, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Hardly the best tagline for an airport.

Did he walk funny because he had a bad back?

[quote]They should have left it as the Hollywood Burbank Airport.

That’s the Bob Hope Airport. I think they’ve gone back to calling it Hollywood Burbank so people will know where it’s located.

Bob Hope is another one who has pretty much faded from the public consciousness.

R110 everything but his cheapness, according to every old waitress in Palm Springs who had the displeasure of waiting on him.

and now a word from the Duke

The more I read about John Wayne, the more of an absolute asshole he seemed to be.

The True Grit with Jeff Bridges > the one with John Wayne

The dump has a shorter runway which makes the planes take off at a steeper angle. Let’s rename it Richard Nixon airport, he was a resident. Oh wait...

R110 there was a great CNN special on The enquirer (worthy of its own thread, actually) that discusses celebrities who paid them off to table salacious stories. Bob Hope was one of them. (Trump, on the other hand, paid to get IN the rag.) He was always nauseating to me and so not funny.

Great I Love Lucy moment was when Fred Mertz met him and called him "Count" instead of "Duke". ( Knowing Fred and his contrary attitude, hopefully his goal was to piss Marion off) What the hell was he supposed to be the Duke of ., anyway ??? And who names a boy Marion???

R117 Marion? No idea. Maybe it’s a “family name.”

Oh, I am well aware of the oddities of choices that parents make for their kids names. Not being a big JW fan, I liked to skewer him a bit by mentioning the whole Marion thing. Hell , my middle name is Clair.,,,, come on, Mom and Dad, you wanted me to be Richard Clair??? As I remember the story, my Dad was opposed but my Mom won out. Thanks for trying, Dad.

r117 Duke was the name of the family dog, somehow it got transferred to Wayne.

You think Marion is bad for a boy's name? Consider the English name Evelyn(pronounced Eve-linn) and the Irish name Florence.

[quote] Duke was the name of the family dog, somehow it got transferred to Wayne.

That's a common occurrence with bigger than life celebrities

They should’ve had the Bob Denver Airport in Colorado. T Then they could’ve changed it to John Denver Airport after everyone forgot Bob Denver. Then change it to some other celebrity named Denver.

What R2 said. He was just an actor— he wasn’t even a good actor. He was just popular in his day and he had good PR and powerful friends. It’s completely asinine that he has an airport named for him. He played make believe for a living, in dumb movies that definitely don’t hold up. He never deserved this level of honor.

Rename it John Wayne Bobbitt Airport, bitches1

Ya gotta love the idiots who think “non-white wife” is proof that he wasn’t racist. Who you sleep with/subjugate/dominate does not absolve your public racism (and sexism) throughout your life.

Also, in 2020 we all know plenty of Jewish, latino and other “non-white” white supremacists. Just because he attracted some wives to indulge his fetishes in exchange for social status and financial security, does not mean his views were acceptable to people of other races even then. It means nothing. Stop embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.